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After seeing some of petemc's work in HDR on here and on his website, I've been inspired to give it a go! I've read his article on how to do it but now I think I need some Raw editing software. It needs to be able to open RAW files shot with a Nikon D50. I don't think that I can do this with my present imaging software wich is PS7? Can anyone recommend some good software please?
 
Your D50 came with software to convert RAW files didn't it?
 
You could try the Phase One site. They do Capture One software, Not sure if they still do a 30 day trial or 15.

However you can give it a try to see if you want to make the commitment
 
I thought I've replied to this one, but here I go again:
ViewNX (basic, but a good reference)
Raw Therapee (quite a good one, but it takes some effort to get the colour warm or nicely saturated sometimes)
RawShooter Essentials - I still use it sometimes, good speed of previews, although the conversion quality isn't the greatest, but still decent most of the time
UFRaw (I like its colours a lot)
LightZone isn't too bad either, at least the last downloadable Linux version of it.
Capture One 4 wasn't bad either, although you need quite a bit of tuning to avoid muddy photos at higher ISOs, but I think it's still better than Lightroom (where you pretty much shouldn't sharpen it at all)
Lightroom - that one I didn't like
Bibble - not much of an improvement over, say, Raw Therapee.

dcraw with a few batch scripts - it's what I use most now in Windows. Excellent highlight recovery abilities and good colours too. If someone would like me to send them those batch scripts, send me a PM :)
 
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